Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19669, Robert Falkner, Mass.

SERVICE
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Mass
Falkner, Robert Hanford, Phebe
N 19669
B.L.Wt. 2026-160-55-
Also spelled Faulkner.
Former Widow
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Phoebe Stanford  11091
Applicant for Pension
Ad July 7. 1838. N.Y.
M 83 282
Hus & died July 11 11 38

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by an act of Congress, passed July entitled "An act granting half-pay and pensions to certain widows."
State of New-York, } ss. Tompkins County
On this Twenty fifth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty four personally appeared before Henry S. Wallbridge One of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County  Phoebe Hanford a resident of the town of Caroline in the County of Tompkins and said State of New-York, aged 80 years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by an act of Congress passed July 7. 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Gershon Hanford late of the town of Caroline in said State of New York who departed this life on the eleventh day of July A D 1838 That her husband the said Gershon Hanford was his second husband she having previously been the wife of Robert Falkner who was a Private Corporal & Sergeant during the war of the revolution and on account of whose revolutionary services she now applies for a pension. That as she was not married to said Falkner until after his said services she cannot relate the various particulars thereof, but she has repeatedly heard him say that he did serve for nearly or quite the whole of said war with the Continental Troops of the Massachusetts Line under the following officers, to wit, Colonel Sasse & others That she enlisted from Lenox, Mass. And Declarant further saith that after the death of her husband the said Robert Falkner she was again married to said Gershon Hanford who died at Caroline in said State of New York , on the eleventh day of July , 1838 since which time she has remained a widow.
AND DECLARANT FURTHER SAITH, That she was married to the said Robert Falkner on the in october day of seventeen hundred and eighty five the day of the month she was not recollect by a minister of the gospel at Charlton, N.Y. ; that the following persons were present at her marriage, to wit: her brother  Patrick Smith  Oliver Lewis & others since deceased
That previous to her said marriage she resided in the town of Charlton, N.Y. and bore the maiden name of Smith
That her husband the said Robert Falkner died as aforesaid on the twelfth day of July  seventeen hundred & ninety two and her husband the said Gershon Hanford died on the 11th day July 1838 since which time she has remained a widow.
The noon on the 4 day of March. The word seven hundred written on an erasure.
Subscribed and sworn the day and year aforesaid, } before me. and I certify that by reason of old age & bodily infirmity the said Phoebe Hanford is unable to attend court and for the same reason she makes her mark.
Phoebe Hanford mark
A S Wallbridge Judge of Tompkins County Court Concurred after Supreme Court.

State of New York Seneca County
I Henry B. Weaver Clerk of the county of Seneca do hereby certify that A. S. Walbridge before whom the above Declaration was made, described and sworn to whose name is subscribed to the first thereto and to the certificate thereon written was at the date of the same an acting Justice of Seneca County Court & counsellor of the Supreme Court in and for said County commissioned and sworn to duly authorized to take the same and further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe this signature to be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County at Ithaca this twenty seventh day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty four
Henry B. Weaver Clerk

Magara District,
To wit,
Personally appeared before me Samuel Birdall Esquire one of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for said District, of which Smith of the Township of Cayuga in said District Yeoman, formerly from the State of New York, who upon oath saith that he was present and was one of the attending guests at the intermarriage of his Sister Phoebe Smith 'now Widow Handford' with Robert Faulker late of Albany - as at that time called but now Saratoga County in the said State of New York, about fifty years ago as nigh as deponent can recollect and that they were married by a clergyman in the Township of Charlton in said former County of Albany 'now Saratoga' and further says his said sister after the decease of her first husband said Robert Faulker married with Jeremiah Handford late of the County of Tompkins and that his said Sister was seventy four years old the last day of January last -
Galick Smith
Given before me at Canborough in the said District in the Province of Upper Canada this second day of September 1839
Samuel Birdall J.P.

Phebe Hanford.
Applicant for pension
Acts July 7. 1838.
March 3. 1843
June 17. 1844
Supplemental proofs
Agent
H. H. Pierce
Albany N.Y.

State of New York Delaware County ss.
Susannah Mack of the town of Harpersfield in said County, aged 79 years being duly sworn deposes & saith that she is well acquainted with Widow Phebe Hanford who now lives in Caroline Township County N.Y. and who was formerly the wife of Robert Falkner to whom, as Deponent has been informed & verily believes, she was duly married before the year 1788. That Deponent is also well acquainted with Rosey Reynolds of Kirtland, Delaware Co. N.Y. the second child of said Robert & Phebe who is now fifty six years of age which Deponent is able to state from the following circumstance to wit. Abner Mack the eldest child of this Deponent was born in the month of June 1787, and said Rosey Falkner (now Reynolds) was born in the Spring of the year following (1788) from which circumstance Deponent is also able to testify as above that the marriage of said Robert & Phebe occurred before the year 1788.
Susannah Her Mack mark
Subscribed & sworn the 18 th day of October 1844 before me & I certify that said Su- sannah Mack is a credible witness.
Lyman Hake A Judge of Delaware Common Pleas

State of New York (County of Delaware Bf
Roxey Reynolds of the town of Cortright in said County aged fifty six years on the 13 th day of March last (1844) being duly sworn deposes & saith that her maiden name was Falkner & that she is the second child of Widow Phebe Hanford who now lives in the town of Caroline, Tompkins County, N.Y. and is an applicant for a pension. That her father's name was Robert Falkner, and was as Deponent has always been informed, the first husband of said Phebe Hanford. That her father the said Robert Falkner died as Deponent has always been informed from the cut of a sythe when this Deponent was an infant and too young to have any remembrance of him. That Deponent has a record of her age made by her husband Henry Reynolds from which it appears that she was born March 13 th 1788. That said record was copied from an older record now lost or destroyed & Deponent is advised that the same has been too recently made to be available as evidence in the matter of her mother's application for pension, but Deponent can testify from her own personal remembrance that her father's death occurred previous to 1794. or at least that from the time of her earliest remembrance the same was repeated to her as a fact, and her memory certainly extends further back than the year 1794.
Subscribed & sworn the 21 Roxey Reynolds
day of October 1844 before me
I certify that said Roxey Reynolds is a credible witness
Lyman Hakes
One of the Judges of Delaware Common Pleas

State of New York.
Delaware County.
Hermsford B. Sheldon Clerk
the County of Delaware do hereby certify that Lyman Hakes Esq. before whom the two foregoing or annexed affidavits purport to have been sworn was at the date of the same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Delaware and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and that his name subscribed to the same is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County Oct. 25. 1844
B. Sheldon Clerk

15,758 - Act March 3-1831
March 26/53.
Phebe Hanford former widow of Robert Falkner late
Capt. Miller. Mass. State Troops
Entd dis
{Revolutionary War
Revolutionary Pensioner Admit 160 Acres, per 30/53. B.W. H.
Boston
2026 if Jdy 30/53 N. Laitenden

ms Feb 48 - no 628
Vol 41 F. 1

No. 15758
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received 55 Mar 26 th 1855
Phebe Hanford former  wid of Robt. Falkner, Sergt. Capt Miller, Map. State Troop. Rev. War.
Warrant 2026-160 155
N. Crittenden Ithaca N.Y.

Answr K. Lintner Mass.
State of New York County of Tompkins ss
On the twentyfirst day of March A.D. One thousand Eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Phoebe Hanford widow of Robert Falkner. Aged ninety one years a resident of Caroline in the County of Tompkins & State of New York, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the Widow of Robert Falkner deceased who was a Sergeant and Corporal in the Revolutionary War
that she now draws a Pension for his services in the Revolutionary War of one hundred and Eleven dollars and ten cents per annum, that she was married to the said Robert Falkner on the fifteenth day of October A.D. 1784 that he died on the 22 d day of July A.D. 1789 and that her name before marriage was, Phoebe Smith and that she is now a widow
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3 d 1855.
She begs leave to refer to the evidence on file at Pension office at Washington.
George Woolcott Justice of the Peace per Phoebe Hanford
We Robert Wood in presence of Sydney and Michael C Brown may president of Caroline in the State of New York upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Phoebe Hanford in our presence and that we believe from the

appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be
Robert Walgr
Michael C. Krum
The foregoing declarations and affidavits were sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above writing, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant
State of New-York } ss. Tompkins County Clerk's Office,
I, EZRA WEAVER, Clerk of said county, and also Clerk of the Courts in and for said county, do hereby certify that George Woodcott Esquire, before whom the preceding declarations was subscribed and sworn, and whose name appears to the Jurat thereto, was at the date of the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly elected, sworn, and authorized to act as such, and to take the same: And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand- writing of such Justice, and verily believe that the signature to the preceding Jurat is genuine.

appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be
Robert Wal Jr
Michael C. Brum
The foregoing declarations and affidavits were sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above writing, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
George Worlecc Justice of the Peace

Rev
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WIDOW, &c.
File No. 19669
Phoebe Mansford Former wid. of Robert Falkner Sergt. Rev. War.
Act: Feb. 20  1/48
Index:—Vol. 84 Page 313
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Statenville Nov 28 th 1844 -
Hon. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions -
Sir, you will please communicate to Arad Doy of Ovid all answers or information relating to my pension case - Oblige your obedient servant
Phebe her Handford mark
Witness E Schutt

11.091.
Phebe Hanford
formerly wid of Robert Falkner
N.Y.
Suspended S. & W.P. Price Club 5.44 " to same 29 Nov 44
Act July 7 th

Shaeu March 23 1855
Enclosed are 5 applications to N. Cattle and

10,758.

To/
Feb. 1
Commissioner of Pensions Washington City D.C.

2026
Hornung

9056
New York
Phebe  Harford . for widow of Robert  Falconer who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 12 July 1792 of Tompkins , in the State of NY who was a Sgt. H er in the Cont. commanded by Captain _____ of the Reg _____ commanded by _____ in the Mass. line for 17 mo 10 days Sgt. 8 " 20 " Corp i
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 111 Dollars 10 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Feb 45. and sent to Hon By Tappan M. S. S.
Total amount, $555.50
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by B. Swann Clerk, Book D. Vol. 1 Page 161

Albany 6671 New York
Phoebe Hanford, for widow of Robert Saltonstall, who was a Sergt & Corporal, in the Mass a Line
2 Certs. 1 — act 1838 1 — " 1843 & 1844 — Paid.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 111 Dollars 10 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Feby. 1845, and sent to Hon B. Dappan W. S. S.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book Vol. 2
Page 77
June 17. 1844,

Robert Faulkner Phebe Stanford. Applicant for pension Act July 7. 1838
Supplemental
From a copy of the Rolls of the 1 st Massachusetts Regiment in this Office, it appears that Robert Falkner , or Falkre was returned as a Sergeant in 1783. which is deemed satisfactory to identify him with the within Robert Falkner for whose service Phebe Stanford claims a pension as his widow.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, June 26 1841.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Robert Falkner is borne upon the Continental Army books as a private from Jan 1. 1777 to Dec 31. 1779. as Corporal from Jan 1. 1780 to Dec 31. 1781. as Sergeant from Jan 1. 1782 to March 1. 1782 after which time there are no rolls of said Regiment in this Office; He enlisted for "during the war."
There is no such name as Robert Falkner in the Continental Service, and the above Robert Falkner is the only one that bears any resemblance to it.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Palfrey, Secretary of the Commonwealth.

State of New York County of Tompkins Town of Ithaca.
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the rolls in his office, of the service of my late husband Robert Fitchner. He enlisted in the year (not remembered) from the town of Lenox - in the County of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts in the Company of Captain Hitchcock in Colonel Vose's
Regiment, and served as a private, Corporal & Sergeant until the close of the war - We were married in the year 1785. He died in the year 1792. The only other facts which I recollect are as follows viz. that she has always been informed by her said husband that he served throughout the whole of said war, but whether he served the whole of this time under Captain Hitchcock or Colonel Vose Declarant cannot say.
I am now 80 years of age, and my memory does not enable me to state any thing further material to the search required.
I have empowered William B. Pierce of Albany N.Y. to act in the premises as my Attorney.
Witness my hand A.D. 1844
this 25th - day of May
Signed in my presence by said Phebe Wanford and I certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the original which makes her mark
for Phebe Wanford Mark
H. S. Walbridge Judge of Tompkins County Court Counsellor of the Supreme Court

County of Ulster State of New York
John French aged sixty five years Being Duty Sworn Before one Joshua Ferris Deposeth and saith that on the nineteenth day of February 1781 I was Detached from the army Then Garrison at West Point and joined Col Joseph Vose Regiment of Light Infantry under the Command of the Major General the Marquis De la Fayette and Marched to Virginia where I then Became acquainted with Robert Faulkner Corporal in Captain Joseph Hitchcock Hitchcock's Company in said Regiment and was personally acquainted with him at the siege of York Town in Virginia and know that he served in the first Mass ts Regiment Com- manded By the said Joseph Vose until the end of the Revolutionary war and have good reason To Believe that he was honorably Discharged as a Sergeant from the said Regiment in the forepart of June 1783 near New Burg in the State of New York and that some few years after I Became further acquainted with him near the head of the Delaware River , at which time he had a Family that Soon after as he was Return home from a Black Smithson horse back riding gate he received a wound shot in his arm from a Scythe which he had got mended at hand

Shop of which wounded Bled to Death have Since Been at the House of his widow Saw her and her Children Sworn and Subscribed } John French this 30 th day of October 1820 }
Before me
Joshua Ferris J. Peace
State of New York
Tioga County } Clerk's Office }
I Thomas Chapwell Clerk of the County of Tioga do hereby certify that Joshua Ferris Esquire whose name is subscribed to the above certificate was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly sworn & commissioned & authorized by law to take affidavits &c. That I am acquainted
with the handwriting of the said Justice & verily believe the signature of "Joshua Ferris" above subscribed is the proper handwriting of the said Justice. Witness my hand & the Seal of the said County this 31 st day of October 1820
Thomas Chapwell (Clk)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Plymouth Co. ss.
I, Town Clerk of the town of Scituate January 13. 1845. I William S. Tucker Clerk of the town of Scituate, do hereby say that I hold the office of Town Clerk of Scituate in the County of Plymouth Commonwealth aforesaid and that I have a certain Book purporting to be a record of marriages in said town of Scituate and find no record of the marriage of Robert Salter or Saltonstall and I further say that I find no record or lists of "the 3 years men" so called in said town -
Wm. S. Tucker Town Clerk of Scituate
Com. of Mass Plymouth Co. ss. Jan'y 13. 1845.
Personally appeared Wm. Tucker & made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed and I certify that said Wm. Tucker is a credible witness - Before me Geo. S. Tucker Just. Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Berkshire, ss.
I Charles Sedgwick, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Berkshire, do certify, that George S. Tucker Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said George S. Tucker and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said Commonwealth, this thirteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty five —
Charles Sedgwick Clerk.

State of New York
Schoharie County
Surrogate Court p: I Demosthenes Lanyer Surrogate of the County of Schoharie Do Certify that Satisfactory evidence was exhibited to me in open Court on this 22 d day of January A.D. 1845 that Robert Falkner late of the town of Blenheim in said County died by the cut of a sythe at Blenheim in the Summer of Seventeen hundred and ninety two or at least fifty-three years ago and that he left a widow him surviving who is still living and known by the name of Phoebe Hanford and that she is a single woman and now resides in the town of Caroline in the County of Tompkins and State of New York
In witness whereof I the said Surrogate have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my Official Seal at the Town of Cobleskill in the County of Schoharie this 22 d day of January A.D. 1845.
Demosthenes Lanyer

Phebe Hanford
Applicant for Pension
Act July 7. 1838.
Hon B. Tappan Senate 41
Rec d Feb 7. 1845

Supplementary.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Jan y . 10. 1845.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the account of the first service of Robert Father, as a private, upon the Army Books, and of the last service as a Sergeant, do not show his residence, or the town from which he enlisted,—but on the acc t . of his second term as Corporal, it is stated, "of Stockbridge in the County of Berkshire, the town adjoining Lenox."
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Palfrey; Secretary of the Commonwealth.

J. Joseph Tucker of Dept. of in the County of Berkshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged Seventy three years, do depose and say, that Azariah Egleston late of said Berk, deceased, who was Pay- Master & Agent of the First Massachusetts Regiment in the Revolutionary War & a Pensioner of the United States under the Law of 1818, left before his decease in my possession, his old Revolutionary Records amongst which I find, in his, the said Egleston's own handwriting, with which I am well acquainted, the Pay Rolls of said Regiment, Clothing Accounts &c. — In one of these Books, containing Copies of Pay Rolls of the several Companies in said First Mass- achusetts Regiment, I find under head of "Copy Capt Miller's Pay Roll Aug. Sept. 1780" certain Columns, headed thus, viz
"Names, Rank, Time of Service, Dollars & Cents, Amount of Pensions" in which Columns are the following entries, to wit     Names  Rank  Time of Service  Dollars & Cents  Amount of Pensions      Robert Falker  Corps  2 "  14 30  14 60   
Also under "Copy Capt Miller's Pay Roll Oct. 1780" similar Columns, headed as before, the following Entries     Robert Falker  Corps  1 "  7 30  7 30     And also under "Copy Capt Miller's Pay Roll Nov. Dec. 1780" in Columns headed as above.
   Robert Falker  Corps  2 "  14 30  14 60     and a similar Entry under Jan. 1781, viz     Robert Falker  Corps  1 "  7 30  7 30     and in the same Book under head of "1780. Capt Miller's Company, State Stores" Robert Falker is named as Corporal & as having received the following three articles —
From another Book, containing Clothing Accounts under head of "Clothing delivered Captain Miller's Company 1780. said Robert Falker is named as Sergeant, & as having received the articles therein stated. — In Book, containing "Account

Changes to be made the First Mass. Militia 18th for the year 1783," under head of "Captain Miller's Company, Continued 1783" Robert Haller is named as Sergeant & as having received 4 Months pay in Specie & Mowing Notes $40. — In Book containing "Abstract Clothing for the years 1781, & 1782," under head of "Abstract of Deficiencies about Supplendages, Con- tinued Captain Miller's Company" I find certain Columns headed thus, with the entries given below.
   Names Deficiencies Total Supplendages Amount Soldies   1781 1782     Robert Haller, Sergeant 11.76 3.38 15.24 15.24  
In another Book under the head of "Pay Roll of the first Regiment of Massachusetts Continued Captain Jeremiah Miller's Company 1781, on pages 11, & 12, are certain Columns, headed as below, & among the Entries under 20, Columns are the following, — viz
   Names Ranks Commencement Time of Service     Robert Haller, Corporal of 1st January 1, 1781. mo. d.   12. "   Days in month Amount of pay Money received Balance due Remarks   7. 30. 88. 16.87. 71. 3"  
And in the same Book, under head of "Pay Roll of the First Regiment, Massachusetts Continued Captain Jeremiah Miller's Company 1782" on pages 31, & 32, the name of Robert Haller occurs, Rank, Sergeant, Commencement of Service January 1, 1782 , Time of Service twelve months at ten dollars per month, Amount of pay one hundred & twenty dollars & the balance due $120. — In the same Book under head
of "Return of men in the First Regiment, Mass- chusetts, entitled to the Gratuity of Eighty Dollars for service during the War, pursuant to the Act of Congress dated May 15, 1778," are the following Columns & entries
   Names Ranks Dollars Remarks     Robert Haller, Sgt. 80. "  

In another Book of Payrolls of 1780, in which part of "1783, Payroll of the first Massachusetts Regiment, Continued, Jeremiah Miller's Company" are certain Columns headed as follows & the following entries occur under said Columns, —
   "Names" Rank Time of Service, Pay per Month, Amount of Pay     "Robert Halloran, Sergeant, 10, 3, 10 " 101 "   "Money received, Balance due Reuben L... 90, 1, dollars 90 "   "40, " 61, "  
And further testify and say, that I have been informed and believe, that a great number of the Soldiers & Officers of the said First Massachusetts Regiment were Citizens of the said County of Berkshire. — The said Captain Jeremiah Miller as I have been informed was a Citizen of Richmon in said County, and the said Azariah Egleston, a Citizen of said Berk. — Further I say not. (The figures "1/30" on 1 st page were written on a separate & the word "Com" on last page read: — "as I have been informed" introduced also "1783" received.) —
Jos. Tucker
Berkshire ss. Jan'y 24, 1845. Then the above named Joseph Tucker made Oath that the foregoing Description, by him subscribed is true according to his best knowledge & belief. —
Before me Geo. S. Tucker Justice of the Peace. And I certify that I know the said Joseph Tucker to be a person of truth & a credible witness. Geo. S. Tucker, Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Berkshire, ss.
I Charles Sedgwick, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Berkshire, do certify, that George J. Sleeper Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said George J. Sleeper and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said Commonwealth, this twelfth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty five.
Charles Sedgwick Clerk.

No 11.091
Phebe Hanford formerly broad of Robert Tackburn NY
act 7 July 1838
Adm o
17 Nov 100 Sergeant. 86.66 " " Corporal 24.44  11 o act 43 - 69.88 $111.10 per " " 44 - 422
Adm o . 3 March 1843 and 17 June 1844
$111.10 per Annu
Hon B. Tappan Senate W. States.

On the matter of the application of Phoebe Wanford for pension under the acts of July 7. 1838. March 3. 1843. & June 17. 1844. Albany October 28. 1844.
Sir, Since the above claim was forwarded to you, I have sent additional testimony of Service & marriage, to wit the certificate of the Secretary of State. Maps, & the affidavits of Jacob Smith & John French. These affidavits cannot now be retaken or amended, the parties having since died, but the affidavits now enclosed so far corroborate their statements that it is believed the proof of marriage will now be deemed satisfactory. This is the best evidence that can be obtained no records of ancient date being in existence.
I have the honor to be Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servt. Wm. D. Pierce
Dear J. R. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions

Oct 15
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Mr. Wm B. Pierce Esq. Albany N.Y.
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Charlton Oct. 17, 1844. —
Mrs Wm B Pearce, Dear Sir, A letter addressed to the Presbyterian Clergymen in Charlton over your name, making inquiry respecting the marriage of Robert Falkner to Phebe Smith, was sent to my house from the P. Office some ten or 12 days ago. I was absent from home at the time, or I should probably have returned you an answer immediately.
The marriage, you state took place in 1785. The Presbyterian Church over which I am pastor, which, I believe was the first in this town, was not organized until Aug Nov. 1786. Of course its Records would mention no marriages which occurred previously to its organization. But the fact is, there is no record of any, which took place until some fifteen years afterwards; nor any in the book, of persons, of the names, which you mention. The Church in Ballston, the town adjoining this on the East, was organized, I am told, some time before the one in this place, & the clergymen there, used sometimes to preach, & perform other ministerial services in this town. It is possible, that the persons you name may have been married by some minister residing there, & the minute of the marriage entered upon the Records of that Church. Mr. Schenck, who organized the church in this place, was at that period preaching two thirds of the time in Ballston, and after its organization supplied this church the other third. I am informed also, that a Mr. Ball, from whom, the town of Ballston took its name, preached in that place at a very early period in its history. I take the liberty to mention these facts hoping they may possibly aid the recollection of the "poor widow", or afford you a clue, by which, you may obtain the desired record — Yours respectfully Thos. C. Lane

Mr. P. Please excuse the sentence below. I did not observe it until I had written the within, and I have no time now to rewrite it. Goldsborough
Shelton Dept. R. 44
I remain Dear Sir,
I send you as Chairman of the executive Committees of Education and Missions of the Presbytery of Albany, the doings of that Body at its recent meeting on the 3 rd and 4 th inst. in relation to two subjects in which you are concerned.

Feb 5 1845
Keep of Phoebe Mansford
Wm H. S. G. Schuch Town of Princeton Washington D.C.
2
17
1111

Ovid Feb. 1. 1845
Dr. Sir
On the 30th Nov. last, I mailed to you with my letter, my appointment as the agent of Phoebe Hanford late widow of Robert Hanford, who applied under the law of 1838 from Thompson Co. New York, not having heard from you, pardon me for respectfully calling your attention to that case.
Respectfully, I am Sir Your Ob d Serv t
Arad Jay
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Court of Pensions Washington

Dec 5 '44
Miss Hunsicker Nippon
L. Edwards Camp of Pioneers Washington D. C.

Dec 5 '44
Yrs True Friend Nip. L. Ladd
L. Edwards Comm. of Pension Washington D. C.

Ovid Nov 30th 1844
Hon Ch. L. Edwards
Counl of Pensions
Dear Sir
Pray leave
to enclose my appointment as the agent of Phebe Handford — may I be allowed respectfully to ask you to please to inform me the state of this case
I am Respectfully Yours Merrill W. Sew Frank Jay

Albany July 1. 1848.
James L. Edwards Esquire, Commissioner of Pensions,
Sir, I enclose the declaration of Mrs Phoebe Kaufud, for the purpose of obtaining her Pension Certificate, under Act 2 d Febry. last.
Very Respectfully
Your obedt Servt
Samuel Jenkins

In the matter of the applica- tion of Thebe Hanford for Pension under the act of July 7. 1838.
Albany June 13. 1842.
Sir.
I would respectfully submit the enclosed papers in support of the above claim. The children have in their possession other papers, which I have directed them to send to you, and which you will please examine in connection herewith.
And very respectfully Your Most Obedt Servt
H. H. Pierce
Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

admitted
L. Jenkins Albany NY

State of New-York, } ss. County of Ulster , }
On this ninth day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Ulster in the state of New York, Phoebe Hanchett a resident of the town of Coeymans in the said county of Ulster aged eighty four years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War:
That she is the widow of Jerusha Hanchett , and was formerly the widow of Robert Hanchett , who was a Sergeant & Captain in the Army of the Revolution, and on account of whose service, she was pensioned under the Acts of 7 July 1838, 3 March 1843 & 17 June 1844 - and the annual amount of the pension which she received under the Act of 17 June 1844, was one hundred twelve Dollars & ten Cents - She further declares that she is still a Widow.
Sworn to & subscribed on this day of June above written, before me + Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above Declaration is personally known to me - + Justice of the Peace
State of New-York, } ss. County of Ulster , }
I, Norman Citten den Clerk of the said county, do hereby certify that Solomon Robison was on the day of the date of the above Declaration and Certificate, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, duly appointed and sworn, and that the signatures to the Jurat of the above Declaration and to the above Certificate, purporting to be his, are genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said county, this Tenth day of June 1848.
N. Citten den Clerk